54 Verbs to Use for the Word squirrels

" "Well, John Randolph, can you picture to yourself Jesus Christ shooting a squirrel for sport?"

We saw an occasional squirrel, rabbit or marten; and in the open meadows around the hot waters there were geese and ducks, and now and then a coyote.

I stood with abstracted eyes watching a grey squirrel in one of the branches, and trying to recall a line I had forgotten in a song.

"It surprises me," said Smirre, "that such a fine hunter as you are should be satisfied with chasing squirrels when there is much better game within reach."

As he approached, John's face darkened; he caught up the squirrel, and made an endeavor to hide it under his jacket.

With the former he cut saplings, or small trees, to throw across the roads, which, in many places, were almost impassable; while with his rifle he killed squirrels, wild turkeys, or such game as the forest afforded, for their provisions were in a few days exhausted.

Go where you will throughout the noble woods of the Sierra Nevada, among the giant pines and spruces of the lower zones, up through the towering Silver Firs to the storm-bent thickets of the summit peaks, you everywhere find this little squirrel the master-existence.

" Stooping suddenly he laid the squirrel upon his open palm and gently stroked the long, silky fur.

The old grandma did not wish to prove herself unworthy of the confidence, so she bent down and took the baby squirrel, and stood there and held it until the boy had swung himself up to the cage with the other one.

What were the effects of his song on "the little childish heart below?" Seated amid the fern, what did Little Bell ask the squirrel to do?

"But I am sure I should not forget to feed a squirrel if I had one.

In his play with words, Sir Philip Sidney kept good heed that even that should serve the end in view; in his play with ideas, Dr. John Donne, so far from serving the end, sometimes obscures it almost hopelessly: the hart escapes while he follows the squirrels and weasels and bats.

"Ah," said she, "you know, father, you told me that I might sell anything I had to buy a Testament for the heathen children, and I was going to sell my pretty squirrel to Mr. Smith, who said he would give me half a dollar for it; but now my Jenny is dead."

Yet in the midst of this hearty winter the sun shines warm at times, calling the Douglas squirrel to frisk in the snowy pines and seek out his hidden stores; and the weather is never so severe as to drive away the grouse and little nut-hatches and chickadees.

Frank, who always acted as cook on these expeditions, and knew how to get up a dinner that would tempt an epicure, was kneeling before the fire, engaged in skinning some squirrels which Brave had treed for him.

Jonas gradually brought the squirrel over the bowl, and prepared to dip his ears into the dye.

There were shouts of merriment as the blithe old lady twirled the platter, hunted the squirrel, and went to Jerusalem like a girl of sixteen; her cap in a ruinous condition, and every seam of the purple dress straining like sails in a gale.

And all around him the wild beasts sway, Cured of their mortal ills Flying squirrels from Sikkim way, Silver foxes that used to play Up on the Kashmir hills.

He took the other end of the seat, lifting the still slumbering squirrel to his knee.

She wiped her eyes and climbed liked a squirrel to the highest limb that could bear her weight.

THE WAY TO LOSE A SQUIRREL Early the next morning, James came over to learn whether they had caught the squirrel; and he and Rollo wanted Jonas to go down with them and see.

Down the dell she tripped; and through the glade Peeped the squirrel from the hazel shade, And from out the tree Swung, and leaped, and frolicked, void of fear, While bold blackbird piped, that all might hear: "Little Bell!" piped he.

Sibyl, herself, can pick a squirrel out of the tallest pine in the mountains with her six-shooter.

He pointed out a scampering Douglas squirrel and had her hearken to a quail.

It was a matter of indifference to me that this advance was carelessly received, since it satisfied my conscience and her who stirred its depthsnor did my cheek flush at the derisive taunt that followed me from the room after this obligation to self was discharged"Now tattle again, little prophetess," for thus she often alluded to my Hebrew name and its signification, "and produce my squirrel, or look well to your wounded mole!"

54 Verbs to Use for the Word  squirrels